Red Cross military relief aids soldiers and families
The Red Cross field director in camps helps with family worries, illness and correspondence for enlisted personnel. The agency reports large distributions of sweaters and socks, home service to over 202,000 families, and 2 million dollars spent, with 20,696 home service workers and canteen units ready to aid troops.
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Red Cross Bureau of Military Relief
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Fall Suits Strike Practical Note For College Girls
First impressions of the season’s fall suits emphasize sturdiness and easy lines. Browns and mixtures dominate, with navy balance shifting as khaki-inspired military touches appear. Coats range from semifitting street styles to new double-breasted models with high collars, patch pockets, bone buttons, and velvet or fur collar accents. A featured double-breasted dark mixture suit shows a brown velvet turnover collar, matching buttons, and ankle-length skirt for comfortable walking.
Fall Suits Show Fur Free Trends As Prices Rise
The article notes the absence of fur trims in new fall suits due to high fur prices. Women wear long fur stoles capes and coatees over outfits and manufacturers expect this conservation trend to continue into fall and winter.
Colored Felt Hats Trend from Milliners for Summer
Milliners introduce colored felt hats as a straw substitute for summer wear. The hats come in brilliant and neutral tones and are adorned with abundant flowers, signaling the advent of the trimmed hat coveted by makers.
New Slip-On Waistcoats Create Attractive Front Details
The latest waistcoats feature a slip-on design with no front closing, enabling makers to showcase decorative tucks, frills, and rifling on the front. These sleeveless bodices pair with street suits for a stylish, practical look.
Efficiency and Emancipation in a Beauty Parlor Romance
In a Reed's store a beauty parlor worker Charlotte grows wary of efficiency talk. After defying a polished young efficiency man she finds new purpose and faces a future with Avery Baker, the store's upbeat proponent who becomes her partner.
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Reed’s
Charlotte Day
Charlotte
Mrs. Peabody
Armstrong
Mrs. Armstrong
Avery Baker
Avery
Latin and Hebrew as living tongues in historical memory
The article argues that Hebrew and Latin twice rose from long neglect to become living languages. It notes Hebrew’s revival after centuries as a dead language and credits the Roman Catholic church with preserving Latin during Europe’s barbaric eras, maintaining Latin as a medium of international communication when Greek faded.
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Europe
Jibway Struggles With Hiring A Cook In Domestic Sphere
The exchange notes Jibway faces trouble securing a cook despite marrying a graduate of a prestigious domestic science school. The Birmingham Age-Herald quips that many educated people fail to apply their training, reflecting on practical uses of education.
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Jibway
Birmingham Age-Herald
Romans Left Standing Walls Across England Still Stand
Several hundred miles of ancient Roman walls survive in England, with the best example spanning Northumberland from near Newcastle to near Carlisle. The exposed facing reveals the Romans' superb construction.
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England
Northumberland
Newcastle
Carlisle
Eat Fresh Fish and Save Meats
A wartime urging to shift consumption from terrestrial meats to fish and pond raised food. It argues seas, lakes, rivers offer abundant fish and that home ponds can feed families while saving grain for the war effort. It also promotes frog legs as additional meat from ponds and streams.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Fish for Your Section by Regional Species Lists
The article lists native fish across regions with examples such as New England Alewife cod cusk flounder goosefish gray fish haddock hake halibut herring mackerel mullet pollock salmon soup sea trout shad smelt squantengue sword fish tilefish whiting for New England. It continues with Middle Atlantic and South Atlantic menus including bass bluefish butterfish carp catfish flounder halibut mackerel perch rock salmon shad smelt spot tile fish weakfish whiting and ends with Pacific Coast Gulf and Great Lakes enumerations of common local species.
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New England
Middle Atlantic
South Atlantic
Pacific Coast
Mississippi Valley
Great Lakes
More Sheep Needed To Boost Mutton and Wool Output
The article argues for expanding sheep husbandry across the Eastern and Southern states. It calls for action to curb the sheep-killing dog problem, improve breeding and range management, restock lands with sheep, promote forage crops, support sheep and lamb clubs, control parasites, protect against losses from predators, and ready lambs for market at 70 to 80 pounds to reduce grain needs and sustain larger flocks.
Feed for Next Winter
Far seeing farmers may advantageously plan to secure their winter supply of feed in September and October when danger of spoilage is past and avoid the uncertainty of deliveries during the winter when the demand for feed usually exceeds the output of the mills.
Velvet bean used for grazing with livestock in fields
The velvet bean may be utilized by grazing in the field with various kinds of livestock, especially cattle.
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